Semple Returns
AUCKLAND, Fri. (P.A.). —A denial that he had returned to New Zealand because of the Maraetai dispute was made by the Minister of Works (Mr Semple) on his arrival by air from Sydney this morning. “I booked my passage back before I heard about the dispute.” he said. He had had no official communications on the subject and all he knew was what he had read in the Press. Though Mr Semple will be in Auckland till Monday he will not visit Maraetai. „ After attending to “some small jobs” in Auckland, including a look at housing projects, he will report to Cabinet on the results of his mission in Australia, where he had been investigating the prospects of obtaining supplies of steel for New Zealand. The Maraetai troubles might then be discussed, and it would be decided whether he would go there.
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Northern Advocate, 12 March 1948, Page 7
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